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DISTILLERY CASE.

TUESDAY MAY 28, 1929,

WILFULLY MURDERED. As Good as a Doctor

SURPRISE VISIT BY REVENUE HOW DR. OBREMBSKI'S COOK'

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MET HIS DEATH. The Coroner's enquiry conducted by Major G. Willson into the death of a Chinese cook employed by Dr. M. V. Obrembski was concluded yes- terday afternoon at the Contral Magistracy, when the jury returned a verdict that the man was, wilfully murdered by some person or per sons, unknown.

in the House.

Children often manifest symp toms of sickness at awkward times. Your child awakens In the night in a stato of feverish

or crying with colic, ness, stomach-ache, bowel trouble, or teething pains. It is too into to get a doctor and you spend hourz of worry until morning.

"An allegation that secret dis- tilling was being carried on at the expense of the

revenue of the Colony was made in the case be fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon, when the szo-foo, or ex- pert process worker, and two fokis of the Yuc Loong Native Distillery

With a vial of Baby's Own at Aberdeen, were charged with us-

The man, who was 73 years' of | ing ten drums of molasses mash age, was found lying on the floor Tablets ready at hand the child's concerning which a record was not of the kitchen at Dr. Obrembski's suffering and your anxiety can kept for the proper information of house, No. 12, Quarry Point, on dsually be quickly overcome. the Revenue authorities.

March 3, and the medical evidence, Pleasant tasting and easily ad- Inéidentally, a lesson was given which was given at a previous hear-ministered because children. liko on the process of distilling shaming, was to the effect that he had them, and guaranteed absolutely

been throttled. Near him found a Chinese promissory note, pure and harmless, you can give 3 bloodstained matchbox and a broken watch chain.

shu, the native wine, out of the raw material.

Java molassĆA is the raw material used. It is imported in cylindrical drume, and taken into native distillerica, where it goes through the process of fermenta- tion and distillation. The refined

product emerges in the form of Shamshu, and is marketed accord ing to its various degrees of flavour

and treatment.

Ta regulate the 5 lput for the purposes of the Revenue Depart ment, the prosecution yesterday stated that under the regulations, cach distillery is called upon to have standard, numbered and approved receptacles for the fermentation of the molasses, and to keep books wherein the amount of molasses used and other, particulars ns to distillery results are recorded.

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These receptacles, or kongs, nụ they are termed In the vernacular, vessels. huge earthenware They are arranged in racks, are filled in turn with the raw material; and the technical side of the pro- cess of fermentation is no well gaug- ed that the Revenue authorities claim to know just when each rack of lungs will have matured suf ficiently for the transfer of the fer- mented mash to the stils. Thus, whenever a break occurs to this clock-work regularity, the authorl- ties can say that the kongs have been tampered with, and investiga- tions follow.

What the Officer Found

In the present case, It was stated by the prosecution that at 6 o'clock on the morning of May 4, a sur- prise visit was paid by Revenuo Officer Tuck to the Yue Loong Dia-

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were seen working two stille, at that early hour. No break was apparent in the rotation referred to above, but It was, found that the two stills were filled with fer- imented mash and that lying by the side of these stills, were eight buckets filled with the same material.

The prosecution said that the mash could not have come from the konga scheduled for distillation that day, for, on examination, Oficer Tuck found their contents to be In- lact. It was alleged that the mash came from ten drums which ordin- arily should not have been used to hold other than the raw material.

"The great thing in this case in. that it really boils down to one fact: that at the time of this visit, the defendants were distilling

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more In the nature of a with the utmost confidence liquid. It would not resemble the oven the youngest and most de material he found in the buckets,

little addition of new mash to this Mr. Hamilton suggested that' a "spent mash" might form a basis upon which they could distill all over again,

Mr... Lo: OH, no. I will not destroy my defence by anying that. will stop where your Worship be- gins. (Laughter).

The case was adjourned until Thursday; at 2.16 p.m. ↑

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the book and which was contained in unofficial receptacles,” said Mr. H. A. Taylor, who conducted the prosecution.

For the defence, Mr. Hin-shing Lo (who appeared for the defen dants on instructions from Mesars, Lyson & Hall), cross-examined Revenue Officer Tuck, who Bald that it looked to him, if 16 buckets of. fermented mash, of which no record was shown, were to be distilled that day. It was Impossible that it could have come from the three official kongs due for distillation as he had examined them and found that they were quite full.

Witness anid he had questioned one of the folis who replied, that the szc-foo. had instructed him to put water into the drama and clean

them out.

Counsel asked if the residue left in the stilla after distillation was not a material of some solidity, and suggested that his residue was the material stored and on that day. taken from the drums.

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